Men's Soccer

Notes and Links: Pacific at San Jose State

Sep 14, 2018

Pacific men's soccer (3-2-1) hits the road on Sunday to take on San Jose State (2-3-1) for what is just the Tigers second road match of the season and the first since Aug. 27. A win would give Pacific its first over San Jose State since the program returned and its first road win on the season.

Against Cal, senior Alfredo Alcala scored in his first match back after missing the opening two through injury.

Senior leader...

Senior Camden Riley has stood out for the Tigers early this season, he leads the team in goals and has scored a game-winner and a game-tying goal so far.

Against UAB, Riley scored off of a penalty kick with less than 30 seconds to play to send the game to overtime.

Riley is shooting at a percentage of .273 this year, the best of any Tiger that has played in each game this year.

Riley has scored in each of the Tiger's wins this season

Free soccer...

Of Pacific's six matches this season, half of them have gone to overtime, the Tigers are 2-0-1 in those matches.

Rising program...

Men's soccer at Pacific was brought back in 2014 after a 29-year-hiatus.

After going just 4-30-1 in the first two seasons, the Tigers have climbed to national prominence by going 26-8-4 in the last two seasons. Pacific reached the NCAA Tournament Second Round in both seasons.

Knoles Fortress...

The Tigers are 2-1 this year at home and rank 29th in the nation in total attendance.

Pacific has had no shortage of success on their home pitch in the last two seasons. The Tigers went 7-0 at home in 2017 and 6-2-1 in 2016.

In 2014, during Pacific's first season, the Tigers finished the year in the top-45 in attendance in the NCAA.

Pacific's home winning percentage of .812 from 2016 to 2017 is the best in the WCC.

Preseason Accolades...

As a team, the Tigers were picked to finish first in the WCC and received votes in the opening poll of the 2018 season.

Senior Wouter Verstraaten was selected to the Topdrawersoccer.com Preseason Best XI First Team.